Merci, Johnny O!

Hey Johnny O, With your true Little Mercy Set our student hearts dreaming Of living in and serving Dusty old villages Not worthy of mention in the papers With parched land or pretty green. But then, Johnny O Little did you and Mercy know One day such damning blood will flow When you are living in and serving In your little village Not knowing if the hospital jeep can go To see your patients, who are waiting. You know Johnny O We almost followed your mercy tracks But just in time did step back From dusty old villages For I can't quite guess from these papers What I'd have done, with all that's happening. I might have ended up Like you and Mercy in a village scene Not knowing if today or tomorrow the mob will come visiting Or perhaps like your friend Binayak In a stone cold cell, alone be sleeping. Just in time, I stepped back Just in time, to be safe and secure Just in time, so my kids can go to a good school Just in time, to take in a movie or two Just in time, to relish rava-dosai, pop some corn, These to you just don't belong Just in time, saved my skin But Merci, Johnny O For taking my place there...